Successful socialism depends on the perfectibility of man. Unless all, or nearly all, men are high-minded and clear-sighted, it is... bound to be a rotten failure in any but a physical sense. Even through it is altruism, socialism means materialism. You can guarantee the things of the body to every one, but you cannot guarantee the things of the spirit to every one; you can guarantee only that the opportunity to seek them shall not be denied to any one who chooses to seek them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of liter...ature. They won't even whore. They're all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp followers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You ask what makes me sigh, old friend, What makes me shudder so?... I shudder and I sigh to think That even Cicero And many-minded Homer were Mad as the mist and snow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Love your enemies. I saw this admonition now as simple, sensible advice. I knew I could face an angry, murderous mob without even ...the beginning of fear if I could love them. Like a flame, love consumes fear, and thus make true defeat impossible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...to many a mother's heart has come the disappointment of a loss of power, a limitation of influence when early manhood takes the... boy from the home, or when even before that time, in school, or where he touches the great world and begins to be bewildered with its controversies, trade and economics and politics make their imprint even while his lips are dewy with his mother's kiss.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The vast majority of individual termites, belonging to the most highly evolved species, never leave their crowded fortress city, c...ould not see anything if they did, spend their entire existence in the narrow chambers and narrower tunnels of a labyrinth where they were born and where they breathe perpetually the damp, carbon dioxide atmosphere and dread more than anything else being compelled to leave it, even for an instant. The lives of certain human city dwellers who spend their days in air-conditioned offices, pass from them through tunnels of the subway to narrow chambers in some housing development, may seem remotely analogous.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Have you never heard of German Becoming, of German Wandering, of the endless migratings of the German soul? Even foreigners know o...ur word 'Wanderlust.' If you like, the German is the eternal student, the eternal searcher, among the peoples of the earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even such is Time, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have,... And pays us but with age and dust, Who in the dark and silent grave When we have wandered all our ways Shuts up the story of our days. And from which earth, and grave, and dust, The Lord shall raise me up I trust.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »